Eng: Ringo Julian, Barcelona 1962, is a pop artist with an extensive background as a painter, drafter, poster designer and activist. Besides, his paintings highlights include concert posters, record covers, happenings and experimental films, areas in which he worked until the last XX century. Currently, in his works converge elements from Pop Art with a psychedelic perception.

Can Pop Gallery has the opportunity to show the ¿CON QUIÉN ANDAN NUESTRAS HIJAS? (Who are our daughters going with?) series (1992-1995), a retrospective of this Catalan artist consisting of 16 acrylics of the overall 69 that formed the series. These works combine pop and typographic components with portraits of girls, acrylics, some of which have been exhibited in many cities throughout Spain: Barcelona, Alicante, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Tarragona, Leon and Gijon. And now they are reaching Girona: real Pop paintings performed by a real Pop artist! www.ringojulian.com

Eng: ALVARORTEGA (Álvaro Ortega). An artist, illustrator and musician for over 20 years, Alvaro Ortega works in newspapers, magazines, comic books, advertising and other graphic media mostly in Spain. To date, he has published comic books, comic strips, art work, prints, posters, record covers and animations both locally and internationally.Alvarortega-online

Eng:Miguel Ferrera (Sevilla, 1983) is an illustrator and graphic communicator, his works are inspired from the Pop culture : movies, music, vintage photographs,...
« He’s passionate about pop culture and the elegant forms and doesn’t hide an inch in their works. More classic movie icons shake hands with even political reasons (that Mao with Coca-Cola and McDonald's fries) in some illustrations with a unique style and highly addictive. » Barcomedor

Eng: "Wäwäs are bits of soul of its creator (Alba). Each figure embodies a moment of life, capture in its outlines a piece of intimate experience, that through art becomes social. The quiet eyes of the dolls seem surrounded by melacholy but, tangled among his wild hair, hides a cry of life, a cry of rebellion."

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

De formació independent,
ha aprés i treballat a diversos estudis i tallers d’artistes i mestres a Mèxic,
Espanya i Itàlia. Va estudiar un breu temps
a l’Institut d’Arts Visuals a Puebla, Mèxic i a l’Escola d’Arts i Oficis de la
Diputació de Barcelona.

Artist born in 1969, from
Mexican origin. Independently formed, he has
learned and worked in several ateliers and workshops of artists and teachers in
Mexico, Spain and Italy.

He studied a short time at the
Institute of Visual Arts in Puebla, Mexico and the Barcelona Deputation Arts
and Crafts School in Spain.

Apart from painting, he has
worked with other techniques such as engraving, silk screening, ceramics and
tapestry. Solari has presented more than
a hundred solo and group exhibitions in numerous countries. His work is part of public and
private collections on various countries of Europe and the Americas as well as
in India and Japan.

His work may have an
inspiration of spiritual order or a clear reflective/critical intention. This intention
has to deal with the application of Art as an instrument for the transformation
of consciousness and society. He has made various pictorial
projects, murals and artistic works in collaboration with children and Art
students.

Eng: "Marc Padrosa (Girona, 1978) uses geometry to talk about man, about his ability to create symbolic spaces, mental scenarios and also the limits that this ordering reason when fight, for example, with the requirements of matter : it is at this point where the meshes or orthogonals become, through its reify themselves, are in that intermediate pascalian space to live with some dignity even seems possible." Eudald Camps